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[Pharo-project] Jenkins Online again
by Marcus Denker July 22, 2011

July 22, 2011

It's working again! https://ci.lille.inria.fr/pharo/ -- Marcus Denker TaskForUs -- Do it Together. http://taskfor.us

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[Pharo-project] I would like to have more contributors in the list on the web
by StÃ©phane Ducasse July 22, 2011

July 22, 2011

hi guys did you ever see this cool list http://www.pharo-project.org/community/contributors? I want more names and picture on it. Please consider sending a picture. Stef

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[Pharo-project] [PBE-Spanish] Status update 2011-07-21
by NicolÃ¡s Paez July 22, 2011

July 22, 2011

Hello everyone, I glad to announce that we have reached Code Complete, that is, ALL the chapters has been translated. Now is time to start with the revision phase in order to have the final version before Smalltalks 2011 (November). If you want to help with the revision and have enough time to read 3* chapters within a month, just contact me. *(we want each reviewer to read 3 chapters in order to ensure not only the translation itself but also the consistency between chapter, and the time frame of n1 month is just to be able to complete the work before November) Saludos! NicoPaez. blog: nicopaez.wordpress.com

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[Pharo-project] help needed with the new FFI plugin...
by Eliot Miranda July 22, 2011

July 22, 2011

Hi All, today I committed the threaded FFI plugin along with the threaded VM and hope to be able to support people in doing threaded FFI work on the x86 platforms really soon now (Esteban, amongst others, this means you ;) ). But to put the image-level code that uses the new FFI plugin into production the standard VM needs to be upgraded to not crash with the ExternalFunction image changes the new threaded FFI plugin wants. The main change is that ExternalFunction changes size, gaining a stackSize inst var which is used to tell the FFI plugin how much stack spacer to reserve for marshalling (its computed on first use). The best way for this to happen is to start using the ThreadedFFIPlugin as the standard plugin in the Interpreter VM. The ThreadedFFIPlugin overall is simpler than the old FFI plugin (no assembler support code) and better (fully reentrant). But for this to happen we may need to implement the platform=specific parts of the ThreadedFFIPlugin (still entirely Smalltalk code) for PowerPC and ARM (and perhaps others, SPARC??). I understand what has to be done and I can explain it to anyone interested in working on the problem, but I don't have any hardware with which I can test the results so its pretty pointless my doing the work and producing something inevitably broken. So are there people out there who would be interested in doing the port to PPC and ARM? It means fleshing out the classes ThreadedARMFFIPlugin ThreadedFFICalloutStateForARM ThreadedPPCBEFFIPlugin ThreadedFFICalloutStateForPPC and having a solid understanding of how alloca works to do stack allocation and how the ABIs on ARM and PPC pass registers. here's hoping there are a few good low-level people who would be interested. Let me know. -- best, Eliot

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[Pharo-project] UUIDs not so unique
by Philippe Marschall July 21, 2011

July 21, 2011

Hi I have run into an issue where there wouldn't any unique UUIDs be produced any more. ((1 to: 100) collect: [ :i | UUID new asString ]) asSet size answers 2 or 3 in my image. My system: linux 64bit cog r2462 Pharo 1.3 latest updates (no changes to the UUID class) I found the issue because there are several versions of Seaside-Core in the WIP repository [1] with the same UUID. For example Seaside-Core-pmm.728 and Seaside-Core-pmm.729 or Seaside-Core-pmm.727 and Seaside-Core-pmm.726. Since this means I can't write any Seaside code anymore I'm obviously not happy. [1] http://www.squeaksource.com/SeasideWip Cheers Philippe

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[Pharo-project] new Cog VMs available
by Eliot Miranda July 21, 2011

July 21, 2011

....at http://www.mirandabanda.org/files/Cog/VM/VM.r2468/. These fix a problem with the ALien plugin assigning -2^31 into Aliens, and fix UUID generation on linux. -- best, Eliot

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[Pharo-project] [update 1.4] #14050
by StÃ©phane Ducasse July 20, 2011

July 20, 2011

14050 ----- Preparation for Ring integration

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July 20, 2011

Hi guys I'm puzzled and probably need food. but why isEmptyOrNil is not defined in Object? because right now if a variable is '' or nil or something else I cannot use it. Stef

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[Pharo-project] Why does CompiledMethod>>hasLiteral: use ==
by Sean P. DeNigris July 20, 2011

July 20, 2011

I tried: aMethod hasLiteral: #DateAndTime->DateAndTime and got false, even though an "=" literal is indeed there. Why doesn't #hasLiteral: use #=? Thanks. Sean -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/Why-does-CompiledMethod-hasLiteral-use-tp3676573p3676… Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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[Pharo-project] [update 1.4] #14050
by Torsten Bergmann July 20, 2011

July 20, 2011

Pavel wrote: >is there some paper about Ring? see http://goo.gl/7Er5O Stef: would it be possible to add the URL's to the update notes as we discussed in May in thread "Linking Update Mails to issue tracker" Thx and Bye T. -- Empfehlen Sie GMX DSL Ihren Freunden und Bekannten und wir belohnen Sie mit bis zu 50,- Euro! https://freundschaftswerbung.gmx.de

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